List of Famous people born in Greece

Aglaophon was an ancient Greek painter, born on the island of Thasos. He was the father and instructor of Polygnotus. He had another son named Aristophon. As Polygnotus flourished before the 90th Olympiad, Aglaophon probably lived around the 70th Olympiad, that is, around the late 6th or early 5th century BC. Quintilian praises his paintings, which were distinguished by the simplicity of their coloring, as worthy of admiration on other grounds besides their antiquity.

Pleistarchus or Plistarch was the Agiad King of Sparta from 480 to 458 BC.

Panagiotis Beglitis is a Greek politician, who from 2004-07 was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, part of the Party of European Socialists.

Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis, also known as Mavromichalis-Pierrakos, was a Greek military officer and politician.

Athanasios Tsakalov was a member of the Filiki Eteria, a Greek patriotic organization against Ottoman rule.

Despina Montagas is a retired Greek female professional wrestler.

Périclès Pantazis was a major Greek impressionist painter of the 19th century who gained a great reputation as an artist initially in Belgium.

Euclid of Megara was a Greek Socratic philosopher who founded the Megarian school of philosophy. He was a pupil of Socrates in the late 5th century BC, and was present at his death. He held the supreme good to be one, eternal and unchangeable, and denied the existence of anything contrary to the good. Editors and translators in the Middle Ages often confused him with Euclid of Alexandria when discussing the latter's Elements.

Metrocles was a Cynic philosopher from Maroneia. He studied in Aristotle’s Lyceum under Theophrastus, and eventually became a follower of Crates of Thebes who married Metrocles’ sister Hipparchia. Very little survives of his writings, but he is important as one of the first Cynics to adopt the practice of writing moral anecdotes (chreiai) about Diogenes and other Cynics.